50 Science Misconceptions

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This week, Hank Green discusses 50 common science misconceptions about topics such as bats, dog years, and dinosaurs.
oritteroposays...

It's lucky that Fritz Lickint and Richard Doll didn't know this. In fact, as stated, Green seems to be denying that epidemiology can ever be of any use!

Now if he had said correlation does not necessarily imply causation, or that it doesn't prove causation, I'd agree 100%... finding a correlation isn't the end of a study but it could be the starting point for one, and often has been.

Oh, and to save anyone else looking this up, the speech bubble given to Tereshkova "первый!" does indeed mean "first!" (at least according to google translate, but it doesn't seem to know gender).

brycewi19said:

Correlation does not imply causation.
Correlation does not imply causation.
Correlation does not imply causation.

There. I did my job, Hank.

DFTBA

heathensays...

"Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'."
- Mouseover text of http://xkcd.com/552/

oritteroposaid:

Now if he had said correlation does not necessarily imply causation, or that it doesn't prove causation, I'd agree 100%... finding a correlation isn't the end of a study but it could be the starting point for one, and often has been.

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